Legends of the holy rood; Symbols of the passion and cross poems. In Old English of the eleventh, fourteenth, and fifteenth centuries. Edited from Mss. in the British Museum and Bodleian Libraries, with introduction, translations, and glossarial index, by Richard Morris.

Þe wiked iwes with sturdi mode Let þer-out strem þin hert blod. Line 176 Alas! lord, þi penus þow tholudust þo, Oure sinnus hit mad so wellawo. Ȝese instrumentus þat here pertend [Read purtraid.] beþ In memori of þi bittur deyt, Line 180 Þey hulpun hem to do þi passioun, Þey help us to oure sauacioun; For þey greuet þe ful sore, Þin anguich wex so lenger þe more. Line 184 Lord, what may i for þat ȝylde þe? Þow desirdust noȝt but loue of me. Lord, þow ȝif me grace and myȝt [folio 80] With al min hert to loue þe ryȝt; Line 188 In lyf and deth, in wele and wo, Let neuur min hert turne þe fro, And or hit so be for thing unwrest For loue let, lord, min hert brest; Line 192 In a blessud tym þen was I bore, When al my loue to þe is core. But merci, lord, i þe prey, Þow let me neuer in sine dye, Line 196 Werethorow i schuld dampned be; Derworth lord, for þi pité Þis graunt me, lord, i prey to þe, For mari loue þi moder fre. amen. Line 200
Þese armus of crist boþ god and man, Sent petur þe pop discriuet hem. Wat man þis armes ouer-se, For his sinnus sori and schereuen be, Line 204 Þre ȝer of pardon is þe summe Of sent petrus grant, furst pope of rome; And xxx popes aftur him þat were, [folio 80b] An C dayus ich yauf with gode chere; Line 208
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Legends of the holy rood; Symbols of the passion and cross poems. In Old English of the eleventh, fourteenth, and fifteenth centuries. Edited from Mss. in the British Museum and Bodleian Libraries, with introduction, translations, and glossarial index, by Richard Morris.
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Morris, Richard, ed. 1833-1894,
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London,: Pub. for the Early English text society, by N. Trübner & co.,
1871.
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Crosses -- Legends.

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